On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > On 24.06.2011 21:24, Robert Haas wrote: >> >> Out of curiosity (and because there is no comment or Assert here), how >> can you be so sure of the input alignment? > > The input TRGM to makesign() is a varlena, so it must be at least 4-byte > aligned. If it was not for some reason, the existing VARSIZE invocation > (within GETARR()) would already fail on platforms that are strict about > alignment.
Hmm, OK. Might be worth adding a comment, anyway... -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
